Mick Miners, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, found a large black object stuck in the ground in a remote corner of his land. Miners, who initially thought the object was a dead tree, learned that it fell from space after experts examined the object. Two more objects were found at other locations during the inspection of Miners’ site.
“VERY EXCITING”
In the statement made by the Australian Space Agency (ASA), it was stated that the object falling from space belonged to the SpaceX capsule. ASA has asked anyone encountering similar objects to contact a debris hotline set up by SpaceX. An astrophysicist from the Australian National University who was called in to study the objects, Dr. “It was so exciting to see all this up close, I’ve never seen a space junk fall like this before,” said Brad Tucker.
The space debris is thought to belong to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which launched into space in November 2020 and returned to Earth on July 9.
LOW PROBLEMS OF LANDING
Don Pollacco, Professor of astrophysics at the University of Warwick in England, stated that it is very rare for space debris to hit land, and stated that objects enter the Earth’s atmosphere from space every day and the majority of them fall into the oceans. Pollacco stated that the probability of injury to a person as a result of objects falling from space is “almost zero” and said, “People need not be afraid, the probability of being shot is incredibly low.”
10 PERCENT RISK OF KILLING BY WASH
The only case of a person being hit by an object falling from space is recorded as Lottie Williams, who survived unscathed after a piece of space debris fell on her shoulder in Oklahoma, USA in 1997.
Research published last July by the University of British Columbia in Canada found that there is a 10 percent chance that one or more people will be killed by space debris in the next ten years. (UAV)